It probably was - drinking ale was certainly prescribed to prevent the spread of cholera.G&T I understand (I assure you I'm neither an alcoholic or historian) to have been invented when the mass travel to India resulted in significant amounts of scurvy, and tonic water was given to travellers for the quinine in it.
In typicially British fashion, what with tonic water being - well - fucking horrible, some bright spark suggested slipping a slug of gin into it, and the rest, as they say, is a Michael Jackson compilation.
(In typicially British fashion, what with tonic water being - well - fucking horrible, some bright spark suggested slipping a slug of gin into it, and the rest, as they say, is a Michael Jackson compilation.
Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Wed 2 Mar 2011, 12:57,
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You're nearly theretonic water was prescribed for its quinine content which fights malaria
scurvy is why we're called limeys
(scurvy is why we're called limeys
emvee cruor deo cruoris,
Wed 2 Mar 2011, 13:33,
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Malaria, scurvy - what's a couple of DEATHS matter when expanding an empire?!/protest song
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Wed 2 Mar 2011, 13:36,
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